Tag Archive for 'retro'
Having issues letting go of your old cassette tapes? If you are, then I find it a bit strange you are reading a gadget blog, but that is besides the point. Now you can play your cassettes on your computer.
Unsheathe your credit-cards, dear gamers, for here is the solution to your retro-needs. Some lucky eBay winner will get the opportunity to swap bland, dreary cash for a twelve-cartridge Nintendo NES system designed for in-store promotions. A push-button swaps between games, while you can hook up your favoured display via the RCA A/V jacks.
The steam powered R2-D2 or R2-S2 (R2 Steam Too) from CrabFu. It moves at the speed of a mighty snail, but you can’t help but love it anyway.
Considering actually buying a phone with a cord? I would, my phone is constantly dead because I forgot to put it back on the receiver and then when someone calls, I can’t answer. Now you can buy the retro payphone; I know it is in fact pink which makes me a little sad.
I never actually had a Commodore 64 when I was younger (I was an Amstrad boy myself), but I still think that the computer is an icon of 80s design. Still, not so useful lately in comparison to laptops - unless of course you hack it into some sort of C64 PDA!
With the serial keyboard [...]
I’m shamefully ignorant of early computers, although I can admire with an LED-appreciationists’ eye the banks of flickering lights and glorious toggle switches. So it’s the aesthete in me that loves this Altair 8800, rather than the bemused engineer/programmer, lovingly crafted by Grant Stockly and sold in complete kit form. One of the earliest “personal [...]
It’s a concept that has been done before, but many people still find it appealing - myself included - putting the guts of a cellphone inside a classic land-line case and making some sort of retro-portable. There’ve been quite a few mods where Bluetooth headsets have been used, but Simon Claessen has gone the whole hog [...]
Since I don’t own an iPod, I’m legally obliged to be bitter and cynical about the broad range of accessories available for the iconic little blighter. Today I will be lambasting speaker systems, with the broad sweeping generalisation that they all look like crap. True, you can get round ones and square ones and spherical [...]
Whenever I think of bars I can’t help but imagine bowls of much-fingered peanuts smeared with urine and the slight atmosphere of desperate, hormonal people. Perhaps instead I should try thinking of jukeboxes - flickr member ericjeff19 obviously has some woodworking skills, as he’s converted an old Zenith Radio into a modern touchscreen-operated jukebox for [...]
Retro gamers with limited funds could do a lot worse than pick up this tiny handheld games console, the Coleco Sonic Handheld, which will be retailing for $49.99 at Target. Running on three AAA batteries, it features a whole bundle of old Sega titles (check the full list of 20 after the jump, as well as a size comparison [...]
